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SBU Postdoc Wins Prize as Finalist in 2018 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists

Priyanka Sharma, a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Chemistry at Stony Brook University, has been named a regional finalist in the 2018 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists. These awards...

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Lydia Myers ’20 Digs Into the Past

“Just being where we’re finding bones, pottery, beads and other artifacts – right as it’s happening – is the coolest thing ever,” says Lydia Myers ’20, an undergraduate researcher who spent the summer...

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Stony Brook students aid Puerto Rico recovery efforts

While other students spent their summer vacation resting and relaxing, Rebecca Mueller, a second-year social work master’s student at Stony Brook University, spent two weeks of her break rebuilding roofs for hurricane...

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Chemistry professor takes over CAS dean position

Chemistry Professor Nicole Sampson took over as Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) on July 16. In addition to teaching classes and attending to her new duties as dean, Sampson is also the co-director...

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“Underwater Wind Farms” in Sandy Rivers Could Generate Hydrokinetic Power

“Underwater wind farms” could generate low-cost, renewable energy from turbines placed in sandy river bottoms, researchers have found. While the potential for in-stream flow energy harvesting systems has...

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Three SBU fauclty appointed to task force to study NY ocean acidification

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SBU Professors Appointed to NY Ocean Acidification Task Force

Three faculty from the Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences — Distinguished Service Professor Malcolm J. Bowman, Endowed Research Chair for Nature and Humanity Carl Safina, and Professor R...

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Grad Student Brent Freestone Tackles Engineering Challenges on Campus and Abroad

Mechanical engineering graduate student Brent Freestone is sowing seeds of hope abroad as part of Stony Brook University’s CentriSeed Innovations, a student-run nonprofit organization he co-founded in summer 2015...

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Crystal Fleming’s Book on Racism Earns Starred Kirkus Review

How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide, the latest book by Stony Brook University Associate Professor Crystal M. Fleming, has earned a starred Kirkus review, awarded to...

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Stephanie Dinkins Awarded Soros Fellowship

A prestigious Soros fellowship has been awarded to Stephanie Dinkins, associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Art. Dinkins was recently named to the Open Society Foundation’s 2018 class of...

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Interning with Stony Brook’s Office of Federal Relations in Washington, DC

Luigi Pesce Ibarra, a doctoral candidate in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences with a concentration in Rehabilitation and Movement Sciences, shares his experience as an intern. Before departing Long Island for my 2018...

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Gregory Matousek ’20 Does Big Science, Hands-On

“This whole environment, which is one big learning tank to discover more about particle physics, has been one of the most thought–provoking experiences I’ve ever had in my education,” says URECA...

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SBU Students and Alumni Sweep State Department Awards

First-ever Fulbrights to Norway and South Korea Record Number of Gilman Scholarships Stony Brook University is continuing its tradition of success in nationally competitive fellowship competitions sponsored by the U.S...

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BME Students and Future Entrepreneurs Win Honors at NYS Finals Competition

This spring a team of students from the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), part of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University, competed in the finals of the New York Business Plan...

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Professor Klaus Mueller Appointed Editor-in-Chief of Visual Computing Journal

Computer Science Professor Klaus Mueller will serve as the next Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics(TVCG) — the preeminent publication in the field of visual computing. The...

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Four SBU Students Earn 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Stony Brook graduate student researchers in the areas of applied math, anthropological sciences, chemistry, ecology and evolution, and neuroscience, have won the prestigious 2018 National Science Foundation (NSF)...

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Empowerment and Feminism Resonate in Meg Wolitzer’s Latest Novel

The Female Persuasion, the newest novel by New York Times-bestselling author Meg Wolitzer, was released this spring into a world very different from the one she imagined when she started writing it four years ago...

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Two Stony Brook Researchers Receive Energy Frontier Research Center Awards Totaling $21.75M

Stony Brook University has received notification from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that two proposals directed by SBU faculty to expand or develop Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) designed to accelerate...

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Alexandra Rivera ’19 Pursues Love of Dante and Japan

“It’s an amazing experience just to understand how the research process in academia works,” says English major Alexandra Rivera ’19. “[You] understand the process by looking into books that...

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Category - Faculty/Student Spotlights

SBU Postdoc Wins Prize as Finalist in 2018 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists

Lydia Myers ’20 Digs Into the Past

Stony Brook students aid Puerto Rico recovery efforts

Chemistry professor takes over CAS dean position

“Underwater Wind Farms” in Sandy Rivers Could Generate Hydrokinetic Power

SBU Professors Appointed to NY Ocean Acidification Task Force

Grad Student Brent Freestone Tackles Engineering Challenges on Campus and Abroad

Crystal Fleming’s Book on Racism Earns Starred Kirkus Review

Stephanie Dinkins Awarded Soros Fellowship

Interning with Stony Brook’s Office of Federal Relations in Washington, DC

Gregory Matousek ’20 Does Big Science, Hands-On

SBU Students and Alumni Sweep State Department Awards

BME Students and Future Entrepreneurs Win Honors at NYS Finals Competition

Professor Klaus Mueller Appointed Editor-in-Chief of Visual Computing Journal

Four SBU Students Earn 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Empowerment and Feminism Resonate in Meg Wolitzer’s Latest Novel

Two Stony Brook Researchers Receive Energy Frontier Research Center Awards Totaling $21.75M

Alexandra Rivera ’19 Pursues Love of Dante and Japan

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